Apparatus
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An apparatus (plural apparatus, apparatuses) may be one of the following:
- A machine.
- A fire engine or fire truck.
- Reference tools added to a book, apart from the text, such as variant readings or translations, textual notes, a concordance, a bibliography, or an index, designed for the use of scholars studying the book.
- One or more pieces of equipment on or with which gymnastics is performed.
- The State apparatus, the formal means (including the legal system, the police, etc.) by which the ruling class exercises power: a term used by some Marxist theorists including Louis Althusser (see Ideological State Apparatuses).
- Golgi apparatus (also called a Golgi body, Golgi complex, or dictyosome) is an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells.
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